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The Growth of Android Software

Android is one of the leading mobile operating systems in the world. With unmatched performance and functional capabilities, Android has attained a great level of excellence and importance. The Android software is considered to be the most appealing and accentuating feature of a mobile phone, tablet or any other device. It offers a great level of sophistication and convenience. In doing so, it supports a wide and diverse variety of attractive and alluringly exciting applications that include games, business apps and a lot more.

The popularity of the Android Operating system has significantly increased the production of devices that are compatible with this OS. Many developers of the Android based devices have stepped in the worldwide electronics market and are introducing hundreds of compatible phones and tablets with each passing day.

Android Phone is a device induced with power and performance based smoothness. It is, therefore, the perfect companion of everyone. It does not matter if the individual is a gamer, application lover, photography enthusiast or a businessman, an Android operating system based phone is the best communication device for everyone.

There were over 300,000 Android applications that were available for download in the Android Market, as of October 2011. The number has ever been increasing. Number of applications that have been downloaded by users has even exceeded 10 billion. Such applications can be obtained from Android Market, now named as Google Play, which is run by Google and is updated with new applications by developers on daily basis.

The Android OS has had several updates since its original release. Each newer version came with new features. Newer versions also fixed the problems that were found in the older ones. The most recent version is called Jellybean (4.2), which was released on November 13th, 2012.

HTC-Dream is known to be the first phone that ran Android software as its operating system. Since then the Android phones have added numerous brilliant features and functions. Almost all the mobile and tablet manufacturing companies are now launching devices that run Android operating system. The most recent Samsung Galaxy series of smartphones are considered the best in the market.

According to the details provided by a research company, Canalys, by Q2 2009, Android had a share of 2.8% of the global shipments of smartphones. By Q4 2010, it reached 33% and gained the position of best selling platform for smartphones. As per a Q4 2012 report by NDTV, the sales of smartphones powered by Android software were more than 44% in the worldwide market of smartphones.